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Korean War
United Nations sent armed forces to prevent North Korean soldiers from entering/fighting in South Korea. Security council set up a force under Mac Arthur.
Leaders: MacAurthur, and President Truman
Naions Involved: Rusia, China, Asia, and U.S. -
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Communist take control of China
Mao Zedong led communist forces into Chiang and drove chineese forces out.
Leaders: Chaing Kai-shek, and Mao Zedon
Nations Involved: Asia, China, and the Soviet Union. -
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Red scare/ Mccarthyism
Americans were worried that communist might take over the government. Some were accused of being soviet spies. Joesph Mccarthy viewed lots of people as a communist party member.
Leaders: Joesph McCarthy, President Truman, Ethel and Julis Rosenburg.
Nations Involved: U.S., and Soviet Union -
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Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
President Truman tried to stop the expansion of communism using a program called the truman Doctrine. Leaders: President Truman
Nations involved: Greece, U.S., and Turkey. -
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Marshall Plan
George Marshall used his plan to take homeless in Europe and use them to support communism, Stalin did not agree.
Leaders: George Marshall
Nations involved: Europe, and Soviet Union -
NATO
The U.S. and western Europe joined to fight off Soviet agression by using the NATO pact.
Leaders: Western Europe leader
Nations involved: Western Europe -
Berlin Blockade/ Berlin Airlift
President Truman created the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies into the West Berlin from the U.S. because the Soviet Union set up a blockade. Leaders: President Truman, Joesph Stalin
Nations involved: West Berlin, Soviet Union, and U.S. -
Warsaw pact
The Soviet Union formed a military alliance and demanded complete loyalty from the Warsaw pact.
Leaders: Leaders of Eastern European Nations.
Nations involved: Eastern Europe (Communist) -
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Fall of Communism
In 1989 peaceful protests were in major cities. The communist government was replaced with democratic changes. East and West Berlin demolished the wall in 1961. Germany reunited with democratic government.
Leaders: Mikhail Gorbachev, Lech Walsea
Nations Involved: Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, West and East Berlin. -
Sputnik
Soviet Union created many rockets in factories and launched the first one (sputnik). The U.S. raced a missel gap. Both "teams" spent more and more money and continued this "space race."
Leaders: Nikita Khrushev
Nations Involved; Soviet Union, and U.S. -
NASA
N.A.S.A. or National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created in 1958 to compete with the Soviet's in the "space race."
Leaders: U.S. Government
Nations Involved: Soviet Union, and U.S. -
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Bay of pigs
The Soviet union provided economic aid to the new socialist state. Eisenhower set up a plan to train Cuban exiles. Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of pigs after JFK became President.
Leaders:Fidel Casdtro, JFK, President Esienhower
Nations Involved: Cuba, U.S., Soviet Union, -
U-2 Spy Planes
Gary Powers (piolot) flying a U-2 Spy Plane was shot down while flying secretly accrossed the Sovet Unions border to take pictures of stratic sites. Powers parachuted to safety-arested,tried, sentenced to 10 years. Early 1962 traded American spy for Soviet Spy. Leaders: Kennedy, Khrushchev
Nations Involved: Soviet Union, U.S. -
Berlin Wall Built
The people of East Germany wanted to go into West Germany to escape communism, so they built a wall divideing both. East german soldiers wanted to stop people from going into the west. Leaders: East and West Germans
Nations involved: Germany, and Berlin. -
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Vietnam War
Civil belif in domino theory, U.S., became advisor's, 1964 America involved in War, 1968 war escaladed, 500,000 troops sent, many protested the war 1/68, Tet offensive, 1973 U.S. lost.
Leaders: Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, J.F.K.
Nation's Involved: Vietnam, Soviet Union, U.S. -
Cuban missel crisis
Soviet Union gave Cuba more weapons. Soviets secretly built missel bases on the Island. Navy would begin "strict quarantine" of Cuba. Khrushchev agreed to take missels out of Cuba, U.S. agreed not to invade.
Leaders: JFK, Robert Kennedy, and Nikita Khrushchev
Nations Involved:Soviet Union, Cuba, U.S. -
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SALT I/ SALT II
U.S. and the Soviet Union signed a treaty agreeing to limit the number of nuclear weapons and missels built.(Salt) trade increased. Astronauts conducted a joint space mission before SALT II treaty was ratified in hope for defended faded.
Leaders: President Nixon, General Ford, Gimm, Carter, Leonid Brechev
Nations Involved: U.S., Soviet Union, China. -
Star Wars
Reagan pursauded Congress to increase military. His defense program included research of weapons to use to shoot down Soviet missels from space, this was called Star Wars.
Leaders: Ronald Reagan
Nations Involved: Soviet Union -
Glasnost
Gorbachev called for a policy called glasnost, speaking out honestly and openly, newspapers could now write about economic problems, hoping the public would help the nation solve theese problems.
Leaders: Mikhail Gorbachev
Nations Involved: Soviet Union
